Professor, Kashem Muttaqi (IEEE Fellow)

University of Wollongong, Australia

BIO: Professor Kashem Muttaqi is the Director of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Energy Technologies for Future Grids in Australia. He is also the Director of the Australian Power and Energy Research Institute (APERI) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a Distinguished Professor and Discipline Leader – Electrical Engineering at the School of Engineering, University of Wollongong.

Professor Muttaqi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1993, the M.Eng.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Malaya, Malaysia in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Multimedia University, Malaysia in 2001. Professor Muttaqi has 30 years of academic experience and authored or co-authored more than 600 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised around 37 higher-degree research students to completion. He has attracted around $60 million in research funding.

Professor Muttaqi is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He was an Executive Board Member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia.

Professor, Rui Xiong

Beijing Institute of Technology, China

BIO: Professor Rui Xiong is a Distinguished Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Beijing Institute of Technology, recognized as a National High-Level Leading Talent. He currently holds the positions of Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Electric Vehicles and Director of the Electric Vehicle Research Institute. His research interests span cutting-edge fields including electric vehicles, electric aircraft (including flying cars), intelligent battery systems and active management & control, big data, and artificial intelligence methods, demonstrating both theoretical depth and applied development capabilities. He has long been responsible for projects under the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and commissions from leading enterprises. He has published nearly 200 SCI papers in top international journals such as Nature Energy, Nature Communications, and Joule, and has received academic honors including the Special Award for Technological Invention from the China Society of Automotive Engineers.